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July Issue 2009
Hickory Museum
of Art in Hickory, NC, Features Works from Collection of Donald
and Patricia Oresman
Diego Rivera
The Hickory Museum of Art in Hickory, NC, is presenting the exhibit, People Reading: Selections from the Collection of Donald and Patricia Oresman, on display in the Shuford and Entrance Galleries through Sept. 19, 2009.
New York attorney Donald Oresman and his wife, Patricia, have become increasingly well known as the owners of one of the rare thematic art collections in the world. Consisting entirely of images of people reading, their collection now numbers more than 2,200 fine-art pieces, sixty representative samples of which comprise this exhibition.
Elizabeth Catlett
Long before coming to be regarded as visionary art collectors, they had the reputation for being serious bibliophiles and avid book collectors. They possess some 10,000 books scattered among three residences.
One of the human experiences most often conveyed in the many hundreds of artworks the Oresmans own may reflect part of the appeal to them of the activity portrayed in those images. "There's a fierce privacy to reading," Donald has said, quoting the critic George Steiner. "When you read, everything else is shut out."
Marc Chagall
The highlights of this exhibition include prints by Pierre Bonnard, Elizabeth Catlett, Marc Chagall, Diego Rivera and Ben Shahn. The exhibition and catalogue for sale in the HMA Galleria were prepared by guest curator, Thomas L. Johnson, Ph. D.
The Hickory Museum of Art is a United Arts Council of Catawba County Funded Affiliate and is located in the "SALT Block" Arts & Science Center of the Catawba Valley in Hickory.
For further information
check our NC Institutional Gallery listings, call the Museum at
828/327-8576 or visit (www.HickoryArt.org).
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